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I * CHRONICLE A nD SENTINEL. Al'fii BTA. MONDAY MORNI? G, FEBRUARY 17. Four or five mail* wyre received last nighti and we understand then were about seventy mail bags brought here by th ;■ Northern route. VV e» of course, have a flood f papers, but we do not find much of interest in hem. The Hon Walter T. .'olquitt, one of our Rep. re»ent..tive« in Congre* passed through this city last evening on his way o his residence, whither he is drawn in consequent of sickness in his fam ily- : Con; ress- There is nothing of m ch interest from Wash ington city. We are u able to bring up the de tails of proceedings rec ived last night, for the four or five days in arret by the failures ct the mail. t _ - . On Saturday last, Lt. Co’. Samuel C. Wilson was elected Colonel of|the 10th Regiment of Georgia Militia, embrac ig the city of Augusta; 'and M. A. Stovall was 'ected Major of the up per Batlallion of the cit . The Columbus Argm ; takes us somewhat to task about eur remarks rn the vote of Messrs. Black and Cooper for Winter to the House of Representatives. We applauded the course of all our members on the Nelr Jersey question, be cause we thought they acted out sound principles •in voting as they did. V e have an equal right to censure, when any of them vote against our wishes and what we belli fe to be the feelings and wishes of those who elec id them, and we shall always take the liberty to do so. We do not support or countenance he present administra tion, because we believe its policy has brought upon the country the wb i spread ruin and mise ry which meet our eyes in every direction we look The Globe is the . 'gan of this administra tion, and is a greater di>g ice toil than any thing else connected with it. 1 igh minded men who support the measures of tl ; administration are of ten made to blush for ha' mg such an organ. It ia the very last thing con ected with or attached to the administration, lo\ hichweever could give support, and we believe tvas to be the feeling of the great body of our partr in Georgia. We arc mortified, therefore, to s te any of our members supporting it, and while we conduct a free press, ■we shall not hesitate to expresa our opinions frankly and independently. The fifteen gallon law of Massachusetts has been repealed. Virginia Election or Governor. The Richmond of Wednesday last, says;— “The General Assembly yesterday,after a pro* traded session of 11 hours and much speaking, succeeded in making an election of Governor.— Thomas W. Gilmer, the Speaker of the House, was elected on the Bth ballot. We congratulate the Whig party on this auspicious result—indeed we may extend the congratulation to the whole people of the State, for, in Mr. Gilmer, they have obtained a Chief Magistrate of high public and private worth, and zealoutdy devoted to the true and substantial interests of the Commonwealth. We never saw a contestj waged more gallantly on all sides. The spirit displayed would have gone far to redeem even a worse cause than that, which (according to our intimate) some gentle men were supporting. | We shall have something to say upon this sub ject in a few days If ths tide-water people do not roast some of their d« legates for attempting to put into the Gubernato ial Chair one who has gone as far as Arthur Tapi >an ever went in favor of abolition, we will give ip our judgment.” from the New Yo k Star, Feb. 8. Two Days Eater From England. By the packet ship Ph; ladelphia, Capt. Mor gan, from London, we ha' 1 j Portsmouth dates to Dec. 28. The London Times of t >.e 27th says that mon ey, without being in any g eat request, still com mands interest at the rate t six per cent p>er an num at the stock exchange Ihe Herald says that the Chartists have again commenced holding secret meetings in London. France.— -The Journa du Havre of the 23d, announces that the MinUt rof Marine had order ed a general levy of seam n throughout the fifth maritime district, includi g all the seamen em ployed on laud and in the ,irsenals. This meas ure was to complete the i anning of the squad ron in reset e, of which tl minister ordered the preparation with ail possiL s despatch. Espartero has come nut! with a published dec laration ot his principles, jiostile to the ministry ami rattier tavurmg the exi tados. It is thought the cabinet w 11 he dissolve . Y t gluing is going on wit , great activity at Al- and ttie results seem! d rather disastrous to the I rench, as no private jrrespondence came by the steamer which reac ied Toulon. Foe passengers who an vad in her, however, staled that hostilities com jued incessantly from the 14th to the Itilh. all a jug the line between Koleah and Foudouk. OS the I4th the Maison Carree was vigorously au eked by 3000 o. 4000 Arabs, but without succes. i The French, how ever, lost 60 men in Hie llfair. In the mean time. General Uultnreres diteatedthe Arabs, near Douera. with considerabll slaughter. On ibe 14th the Amazon frigate i nded 550 men of the 3d Regiment of Light Into my, who were imme diately sent to the Maiso Carree, and on the 15th the two battalions ot die 58th. landed from the ships of ihe lint, proce Jed in the same direc tion. The next day the f rench army took the offensive aloug the whole line, and beat the ene my in every direction. Los not, Friday. Decern trr 27 half past twelve. Now that those comraer ially connected with the L nited States have bad nne to compare notes, the feeling is pretty genera that the accounts re ceived per tjie B-iush Qye t< are much more fa vorable, Iwo o clock. The moi ay market is in a ve ry tranquil * tie. and the o, y occurrence likely to disturb it for the present is he occurrence of the 4th January, which, wheuiommercial affairs are in a thriving con htion. is t Mieratly what is term ed ••« heavy day.” Ahh.M gh the payments to be made at tae beginning of [rext month »ai be comparatively iiisigiulican we must recollect thst the resources of the c ercantile community y‘ have *l*o been materially curtailed, that Co ? n j sequenlly they may have as much difficulty in Sw meeting ~ mall engagements m they _ hadl fojv merly in borrowing large .ones. Ihe ftimls are not affected to any extent by those temporary pressures, which only proves the abundance of wealth in the midst of a scarcity of money. The news carried out by the British Queen wai considered favorable. . M. Sauzet is elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies, by 172 votes over Odillon j Barrnt, who received 94. | The bureaus or committees chosen, are gener allv favorable to the Ministry. The Moniteur states that by the last reports from Africa the numbers of sick in the various hospitals had diminished. The number, which was on the Ist Nov. 2,390, had been reduced to 1,778 on the Ist inst. Correspondence of the North American. New York, Feb. 7, 3 P.M. We have a quiet sunny day. The chief move ment is in the snow Banks. Ihe packets have, however, gone to sta. The George Washington, for Liverpool, takes over $50,000 in specie. The rates of Exchange on England remain high, say 8 a 9 prem. Bills on Philadelphia, 6J a 6|; Baltimore, 6± a 6* ; Richmond. 7 a 7$ ; Charles ton. a4; Savannah, 6$ a 7s; Augusta, 8$ Macon, 11 al2 ; Mobile, 7 a 7} ; New Orleans 4 a 4 j • q he sales of Cotton so far to-day, are reported at 300 bales. In bread stuffs nothing is doing. There is a very heavy feeling in the market. People are beginning to look out earnestly for the steamer Liverpool. The day of sailing was January 20th. But whether she comes, is some what doubted, though the agents expect her. p, S. I have just seen Boston papers, brought by Hamden, of yesterday morning. They seem to be short for flour in Boston, for the Atlas says the market has further improved; 1200 barrels common Genesse have been sold at $7 26, and $7 | a i are generally asked ; $7 cash is offered for Ho ward-street, and refused. New York, Feb. 10, 3 P. M. The talk about the Manhattan Bank grows louder and louder, and the difficulties in the bank are found to be somewhat greater tha.. was at first supposed. The trouble is, that for years past, Mr. White, the cashier, has been in the practice of making loans on stocks, which stocks jn these Lw times look, are insufficient secu ity- Many of the loans are said to have been more or ■ less influenoeu by personal friendship, ihe direc tors say they have not known of these loans at all, though some of them are of several years standing. The whole amount is said to approach a million of dollars, tho’ the loss will be but a small percentage on this amount. The affair has made a quarrel between the Cashier and the President and Di* rectors, about who shall bear the responsibility The Bank has during the last summer erected an elegant granite house on Wall street. The stock has fallen from 113 to 100, and at the close of the Brokers’ Board to day, 80 was the best offer. Oar stock of Cotton is so low that very little business can be done until we get more. In Flour there is nothing doing. Domestic Exchan* ges are just about as they stood at the close of last week. Flour.—The Zanesville (Ohio) Republican of the Bth inst. contains the following doubtful item : “ We hear from good authority that proposi | tions have been made to an extensive mercantile house in New York, for delivering in that city in June next, ten thousand barrels of flour, at fair dollars sevent y-Jive cents per barrel, which have not been acceded to.” Notice or the British respecting Ame rican Slave Property.—Lord Palmerston, in a letter of the 2d May, announcing the pur pose of the Cabinet to recommend an appropria tion for the payment of the slaves liberated at Bermuda, refers Mr. Stevenson “to thecorrespon deuce which has already passed between them on this subject for the reasons which will prevent the BiitishGovernmcnt from admitting either now or hereafter, any claim for compensation in re spect to slaves thrown within Briiish jurisdiction, after the period when slavery was abolished in | the British dominions.” Letters from Portsmouth, N. H state that Se cretary Woodbury, has given directions for the sale of stocks held by him in the Eastern Banks. He is said to be one of the largest holders in that quaaterof the county ! From the New York Commercial Advertiser. Maine.—The Portland Daily Advertiser con tains the following extract of a letter from the capital of that State, where its Legislature is now in session. It must be borne in mind, while reading it, that the Government of Maine is tho roughly Sub-Treasury—its theoretical belief be ing for hard-money, and nothing else. This let ter shows what is the practice : “ I have some very gratifying intelligence for your readers. The p ospecl begins to brighten that money will soon flow in abundance up and down the Kennebec. The Treasurer of the State has just received four reams of beautifully engrav ed blank notes, with a spread eagle upon them. They run as low as $5 and up to SSO, and noth- j ing is wanting but the name of the Treasurer, and i then the • aching void’ in our circulating medium will be filled. They are ‘in hscc verba.’ i “ ‘ The Slate of M line promises to pay, at the ! Treasury office in Augusta, in one year afterdate, ! or sooner, it notice be given, to the holder of this note, Five Dollars in current Bank Bills, of said j State, with interest at the rate of six per cent. j per annum. . Treasurer of the State of Maine.’ “ It is to l>e hoped that the memiiers will now i go about business in righ, good earnest, as there j is a prospect of their gelling their pay fur their j j services. It is true they will not receive it in the j * cons itutional currency.’ hut they must not he ; particular these ha;d times. Neither will they receive it in current hank bills of the Slate, but in ihe Treasurer's promise to pay them such. This seems to be a great way off from the vel -1 low boys.” - - From the New Orleans Bulletin of the 6th. Texas. Through the politeness of Captain Wright, of the steam packet New York, which arrived yes terday in 32 hours from Galveston, we are in j P™* 6 * B *™ of P«P° rs of that city the 3d instant. They contain little of interest. Letters received from Mexico, make mention of an expedition he : ing fitted out, destined for Texas, to be headed Iby Bustamente. The objest of the expedition is i no doubt, to protect Matamoras from the assault of the Federalists. Both Houses of Congre-s have voted for the adoption of the Common L w of England, as the ba-is of the system of jmi*. prudence to be reared in Texas. A British sloop of war had appeared at Velasco, supposed to be | the bcarei of despatches from the Britiah Gov ernment. The papers announce the election of General Folix Houston as Major General of j Texas. The state ©I business and trade in Texas remained without alteration since previous advi ces. From, the New Orleans Bulletin, 6th inst. By the schr. Ulysses, arrived yesterday, we i have received our Havana papers to the 29th ult, | An extract from a Vera Cruz journal of the 28th December, gives an account of the lormal land i ing from a Spanish ship of war, ot Don Angel de la Barca, Minister Plenipotentiary of her Most Catholic Majesty, near the government of the Mexican Republic; and of his subsequent arrival at the capitol. A terrible conflagrate n occurred in the city of Mexico, on the night of the 27th, and the editor complains loudly that the authori ties take no steps to prevent their frequency. — The Mexican editor of the Diario, informs his readers that the New Orleans Bulletin openly expresses its sympathies in favor of the Texians, and makes odious comparisons unfavorable to the Mexicans, without distinction of descent ot color. Tampico, Dec. 22.—Huzzah for the great Tenoxtitlan, from Acapuica to the Sabine, from Vera Cruz to California ! From Met amor as. — Last evening about 100 artisans and people from the neighborhood pre sented themselves at the state house, and formed a company of infantry to defend their property and the integrity of the soil, against the united Federal and Texian anarchists.” From the New Orleans Bee of the 8 th. From Texas. Bv an arrival from Texas we have received Galveston papers to the 3d instant inclusive. A letter from our officeis engaged in running the boundary line between the United States and Texas, states that the commissioners have been unwillingly detained by the want of instruments and the absence of some who are connected with its operations; but that the line will be run in a very few wetks. The bill to delect fraudulent land certificates has passed both houses of congress. It provides fur the appointment of commissioners to examine all certificates, that no titles shall be issued upon any certificates not approved by the board, and that no title shall be issued to any assignee. G. W. Horton, esq. has been appointed recor der of the supreme court. The Pilot, a British sloop of war of 18 guns has reached Texas bringing an agent of that gov ernment from one of the West India Islands, who demands a surrender of certain black subjects of Great Britain, said to have been inveigled into the country and sold for slaves. Congress is expected to adjourn about the mid dle of the month. A letter from Austin, dated January 19th, says: “Judge Robinson was tried for murder before judge Shelby—committed for trial—taken before Jones, Rusk and Mills, on habeas corpus and dis charged,—He has re>igned, and John Hemphill, esq. by an almost unanimous vote elected to fill the vacancy. Correspondence Between the Governor of New Jersey and the Speaker of the House of Representatives U. S. STATE OF SEW JERSEY. Executive Department, T kexton, Jan. 24. Sir: I herewith transmit a copy of a preamble and resolutions passed by the Legislature of the Slate of New Jersey at their present session, and request that you will lay the same before the Rep resentatives to the 26th Congress from the several States, now assembled at Washington. I have the honor to Ire, with great respect, your obedient servant, WM. PENNINGTON, Governor of New Jersey. Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, A Representative from Virginia. House of Representatives of the U. S. > Washington, Jan. 30. 5 To His Excellency. Gov. Pennington. Sir: I huve received, through you, the resolu tions ot the Council and General Assembly of New Jersey, a copy of which was ordered to be transmitted to “the Hon. R. M. T, Hunter, a Representative from the State of Virginia,” with a “request that he will lay the same before the other Representatives from the several States, now assembled at Washington.” As an individ ual. or as a member from the State ot Virginia, I should always esteem it a distinguished honor to be selected as the oigan through whom the sovereign State of New Jersey might be pleased to express its wishes and opinions. But as I have no right to suppose that the Council and General Assembly ot New Jersey have designed thus to distinguish me individually and to the exclusion of the honorable member from that State who with others constitute the present House of Representatives. I feel bound to con clude, upon tins consideration and from the gen eral tenor of the resolutions themselves, that they were sent to me on account of the station which I at present occupy. Under these circumstances, I beg leave most respectfully to decline to lay these resolutions before the House over which I have the honor to preside, as virtually they seem to deny my title to the otFice of Speaker, and the right of those who have invest d me with that trust. The H. use of Representatives of the United States ot Amenta, having elected a Speaker, has a right to expect that all communications made to it through its organ, should he addresssed to him in his official capacity'. Under this view of the case, it would seem that I cannot comply with the request ot the Council and the General As sembly ot New Jersey, with a due regard to the dignity of the House, or without admitting by inference that it had conferred upon me authority which it had no right to give, and that I my-elf am discharging the functions of an office to which I have no title. I hese are admissions which I am not prepared to make. In thus slating my views in reference to the request made of me. I raise no question as to the propriety ot the resolutions themselves, or as to the of the Council and General Assembly ot New Jersey to adopt them. 1 only refer to them as they relate to my official station, to show that I am influenced by no want of respect for I l ‘ lß constituted authorities of the State of New Jersey, but g iverned mirely by a sense of duty i to Uie House, of which I am the organ, and ' which may expect that I shall not lay before | them communications which refuse to accredit ime as such. lam not disp s'd to cavil about mere matters of form, nor do I imagine that a personal disrespect was intended to be offered to me by those whose station and dignity alike for bid su-h a supposition. But when an omission of form seems designed as a mode of deny ing the rights and privileges of the House es Represent atives. of which I am the organ, it becomes my duty to do nothing which may recognize the pro priety of such an omission. I have retained the copy of the resolutions transmitted to me, until I shall be further advised by your Excellency of any other deposition w hich it may be proposed to make of them. In conclusion, 1 beg leave to express my regret that I should lie unable to comply with any re quest made of me by the Council and General Assembly of New Jersey. I have the honor to be. with great respect, your obedient servant, R. M. T. HUNTER, At a meeting of the Board of Direr'or* of the Bank «f South Ca-olna, on Wednesday last. J»»hx S. Cog dell, Esq. was unanimously re elected President. Savannah, Feb. 13. Melancholy Accident. —Four horses were returning with the omnibus trom the railroac. depot with five pas: engers, (two ladies and three gen tlemen inside.) vesterday afternoon, wuen the horses, neat the store of Mr. A. Champion, Mar ket Square, became frightened and unmanageable, and we regret to .-tate that while a*, full speed near the store oi Messrs. Hamilton & Houston, Mr. B. Childes, of Burke County, a contractor on the railroad, in attempting to get out was thrown against a tree, and received a very serious wound on the right temple, from the effects of which he nied last evening. The other passengers left the omnibus in safety. The horses proceeded with the vehicle through several streets, until ap proaching Judge Berrien’s residence, one of his men servants nobly attempted to stop therm but he was run over and serious»y injured. Ihe omnibus was soon after upset and the driver thrown from his box, but escaped uninjured.— Some bales of cotton, it is thought, alarmed the horses and caused them to start. Rorbert and an Attempt to set Fire. The store of Messrs. McCartney & Gordon, in Broad-st, was entered last evening, by some person or persons unknown, anti after ran rack ing the draws, and abstracting five hundred d< 1- lars therefrom, the villain or villains set fire the desk, which commenced burning rapidly, when it was fortunately discovered in time to pre vent any serious damage. Information was im mediately lodged at the Guard House, when search was made, but nod le could be had, to the robbers.— Charleston Courier of Saturday. The Secretary of the Navy estimates the num ber of steam vessels of war requisite properly to defend our sea ports at forty, the cost ot which would be 13 and a half millions of dollars—tne completion of the requisite number of docks and navy yards 24 millions, and to put the navy proper, on a war footing, would cost 19 millions m_re, being a grand total of fifty-six and a half millions of dollars. Elf.ction of Bts iop,—We learn that the Rev. Dr. C. E. Gadsden, long the pious and es tee fed Rector of St. Paul’s Church, in this city, wa* yesterday elected, by the Episcopalian Con vention. in session in this city, B.shop of the Dio cese of South Carolina, by a majority of one vote among the Clergy, and of seven votes among the lay delegates, who were members of the Convei ' tion. Dr. Gadsden’s competitor for the office was the Rev. Stephen Elliott, the gifted, admired and pious Professor of sacred literature in the South Carolina College.— Char. Cour. of Saturday. Printer’s error. —A rather green village ed itor of a country paper was desirous of gaining the good graces of the new parson, and in describing his first entrance into the church the other Sun day wrote—“He is a most venerable sample of antiquity.” To his astonishment, however, ami to the amazement of the inhabitants, it came out the next morning in the paper—“ He is a most venerable sample of iniquity." Jonathan.Slick's ideas oi Love and Ladies. [From Jonathan's New Year's calls in New York. j Getting in love is somewhat like getting drunk, the more a feller loves the r.iore he wants to, — and when the heart gets a going, pity put, pity j pat, there is such a swell, that it busts up all the strings, so that it can’t hold the grit real at all. | When Judy White fust took hold a my arm I give the coat sleeve a real hearty smack, where her hand took h and that coat I leally did love belter than any otm*r I e\er had on; but I never think the better of my yaller gloves for shaking the hands of all the gals in York. I’ve only got Miss Miles out of my head, to get a thousand new shining faces in. Lord knows what’ll become of me, if I g » on to be bedivilled arter the women, as I have been this new year’s day. When a feller is made any thing on by ’em he must have been brought up under good preaching in Weath ersfield to stand it here in New Yoik. I feel as : f I shouldn't be good for much afore long, myself, the way I am going on, but to skoot up and down Broadway like that ere Count, and to hang round gat's windows with fifes, and bas soons. and drums and gitars at night. When they heigh ho me so there’s no help to feeling. I can’t look lull into a purty girl’s face ail a flushing so, without being kind a dazz ed and scorched. It wakens me up in this cold weather and kindles such a pulse in my heait, that the blood runs through it as hot as if it had run through a steam-boat pipe. And then all-fired, the things have so many sly ways of coming over a teller with them are crinkum crankums of them, that I don t think much of their purty months work, and not feel his work too. It they sidle up, I cant help sidling too if I died : and when them black eyes fall flash on me. I wilt right down under ’em as cut grass in Weathersfield on a hot summer day. It is natur all this, and I, can’t help it no how. If women do snarl up a feller’s heart strings. j though, they keep him out of other scrapes; any b.wlv will tell you that. A man that is in love a leetle is not always a running into rum holes and j other such places. He don’t go a gambling, and isn’t a-sneaking round nights. Love, according to my notion on it, is a good anchor for us on this ’ere voyage of life ! it brings up so all standing when we put on 100 much sail. It puts me in mind, no v I think on it, of our cruise through Hell Gate in Captin Doolittle’s sloop: forjist as the tide and the wind was a carrying us on the rocks, we dropt anchor i and kept off. I 1 >ok on the uses of women purty much as I look on the freshet that in the spiing brings down the Connecticut the raal rich soil for the meadows in Weathersfield. They make a great deal of splutter and fuss in their spring I time, with their rustles and their ribbons, and their flotillas, 1 know; but when they light on a feller for good, they are the raal onion patches of his existence. Pul us together and the soil will , giow any thing; but keep us apart, and we are all I thistles and nettles.— New York Express. We do not recollect that we have seen any il lustration of the extravagant more transcendency I ludicrous than the following, (a mere invention I evidently) copied from a Buff do paper, said to ! have been uttered by a live Hoosier: Stranger—l expect you are about the tallest | kind of a coon there is in these diggins. Your lit- ! tie Bulla lonian walks straight into things, like a i squash vine in a potato patch. I come down the other day in the steamboat ! Cleveland. She s a pretty fixin; golly! ain’t she a smasher? Once comig down a streak of lightning f.dlow-d three miles and better. The Captain see it was gaining on us a linle. so he told the man to starboard the helm and let it go by. It did 1 i go like a horse, and vve were so near it that the deck passengers smelt brimstone. The Captain feit a little cheap, at first, about letting it be..t him. and said the steam wasn’t up, but I told him he did perfectly right to turn out] as there wa-: so many women on board, and then there was so much iron that it drew the lightning and helped it along, so it warn’t fair play. You should have heard the thunder that come a long after it. It wouid have given you a new idea for one of your articles. Perhaps you don’t know where I came from G.ve ns your fist now. and I’ll tell you all about' it. W hen I m home I stops in the Chuckahokee diggins, in the State of Indiana we raised a „ a j mighty crop of wheatihis year [ reckon nigh upon four thousand bushels, and a sprinkling of corn oats, potato-., and garden sass. ' You could hc»; the earth groan all round our settlement; the crons were so heavy, and thal'e what gives rise to the stones about the earthquake*, it was enough to make a young earthquake to near corn grow as it did. and asto the potatoes, I’ll be skinned alive if ever I saw any thing like it. W.*y. any one o. tnem warm u;ghts, you just go out into a lit’lc patch of fifty acres, close to the house, and hold vour ear down, you could hear the young pota toes quarrelling, and the old ones swearing at them because they didn't lay along and stop crowding. I calculate you didn’t raise such crops in these parts. ■ Why, one dav, one of our squash vines chased ! a drove of hogs better than half a mile, and they j ran and squealed as if the old boy was after them, j Pill Advertisements. —, r n common with most other papers in this Slate, (and out of the . State too.) the Patriot admits into its columns j advertisements of patent medicines. Some of our readers make complaints, which no doubt are j well founded, that too much ot a good tiling, in the line of pill advertising, makes them sick. What would be their situation, if instead of the j advertisements, they 7 should be compelled to take the actual pills 1 To tell the truth, we ourselves nauseate some- ; what at the f requent sight of these pill puffs, and should utterly refuse to take them, were it not that we are thoroughly convinced of their excel lent effect upon our wholesome. It requires no j Esculapius to convince us of this, our lean and consumptive pocket-book testifieth to the fact ; i they impart life, and health, ami strength. And the secret of their virtue is, that the pill dactors pat us for advertising—thus making a contribu tion to our siender stock of the main chance, which is by no means to be sneezed at ! Is not this satisfactory, all round I —Greensborough > Patriot. “Arrah, Teddy, an’ was’nl your name Teddy O’Byrne before you left old Ireland 1” “Sure it was, my darlint.” “But, my jcwcll, why then do you add the s, and call it Teddy O’Byrnes now 1” “ Why, yespaleen! haven’t I got marri ed since I kem to Anieriky '! an’ ar you so igne rant of grammatics, that you don’t know that when one thing is added to another, it becomes plural!” Two citizens courting the daughter of Themis todes. he preferred the worthy man to the rich one, and assigned this reason : “ I hail rather she should have a man without money, than money without a man.” Advantages of ax f.mptt Purse —People may talk as they please about independence.— Your only independtnt man is he of an empty purse. What is the rise or fa lof stocks to him 1 What cares he for commercial failures? What for high or low prices ? What for taxation or national debt ? What for commotions or revolu tions. the decline and fall of empires 1 Nothing. He smiles at the robber by night, and the tax gatherer by day, and regards the exciseman and pickpocket wit.i equal indifference. He is your free philosopher, worthy the eye of Jove, one who stands “Unhurt amid the war of elements. The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.” Shixplastkhs.—A law has been made in Mis sissippi, which will be a death blow to small notes. It imposes a tine of £2,000, and several months ■ imprisonment in the penitentiary, upon all indi viduals issuing “sltiuplasiers,” or notes for a ; small amount. p . , A New Project. —Some wag recommends as every other project has failed to subdue the Seminoles, that Government plant the mums mullicaulis ail over Florid i, as it has been ascer taned that every branch contains two hundred and forty two shoots! We see it stated that oh can be procured from Indian corn in tire proportion of half a gallon to the bushel, which burns as well in a lamp as sper maceiy, and emits no Lad odour. The same corn will yield toe same quantity of whiskey. j Two of a Trams.— A Physician being sum moned to a vestry to reprimand the sexton for drunkenness, dwelt so long on the sexton s mis conduct. that the latter indignantly replied :—“Sir, I was in hopes you would Lave treated my failings with more gentleness, or thatyou would have been the last man alive to appear against me, as / have covered so many blunders of yours!” “ Well stranger, where are you out’n?” said a landlady of Arkansas to her guest. “VV hy, madam, I am iiuw from Baltimore, Maryland, but I was 1 born and brought up in Massachusetts, near Bos ton,” said the gentleman. “ Aint that whar the Yankees live,” said the lady. “ Yes ma’am,” re plied tile gentleman. “ Law me ! you are the very man 1 have been looking arter this long | time— my dock is out of fix," ejaculated the lady I in ecstacies ot j >y. — Arkansas pap. COMMERCIAL. ! Latest dates from Liverpool Dec. 26 Latest dates from, Havre Dec. ly Liverpool, December 26 k’ Cotton. —There has teen a good business done in the Colton market to-day ; about 4000 bales, prin i cipal y American descriptions, have been sold —no change in prices Ihe transactions are whody to j the trade. I London, De ember 27. The latest advices from Havre give the review j of the week ending the 21st instant, from which it I appears that business had not been very active of 1 Lte, and that there had been but very little altera j tion in prices. Charleston, February 15. Cotton The unfavorable anticipations which are now generally entertained respecting the forth j coming «tdvicos Loin Europe, together with the ad vanced tales ot height, have tended materia lv to j aepie.'S the operations on Uplands, and t» exche j cauuon and distrust in buyers. In many instances , holders were compelled to yield their ground ; and i operators tnis week iiave tlie advantage, which I they wid probably maintain, until a decline is es ] tablished, or amo o favorable state of thin »s on erates to ihe contrary. Cur stock of a 1 descriptions j is amp e, and the receipts from different quarters | continue abundant. The transactions comprise ; a Q OUtSOOO l ags, vi z: 30 at 6c; 28 a 6£; 25 a6L I b9 J a r l ; a a 7 * ; 6J a ~s'’ 2:j 549 ,a8;6o a 8 1 -8; 221 a 85 ; 75 a 8f; 98J a8; • 176 j a 8g; 989 a 8J; 31 a 8j; 490 a9; 68 a 95;‘107 a 9|; and „C Lags a H e per lb. Long Cotton about IS7 bags were disposed of since our last, at from 20 to 25 cts per ib, and 20 bagsstamed at 7 to lOcts. ’ j Rice A considerable depression has existed for I S ™ e T P a « tn this staple. We notice a decline ol 2o cts per cwt. on interior and middling qualities whnst very prime is not to be had. Lit?e or no shipping m haibor are now taking Rice and to this cause, is the decl ne mainly attributed laige proportion ol the sales were taken for doaiMUcuse. The stock in hrst hnndMs "rnaH J” * "» h ' i °P era t>ons embrace 1821 tie ices as follows: 136 at s2| ; 433 2*; 118, 2 per cwt 495 ’ 30 ’ 2 15 " 16; 396 > 3 5 and 223, 3i Rough Rice —5900 bushels sold at 79 to 80 cts per bushel. ' flrur —350 barrels Baltimore, sold at $6 J , a6} per bbi; and 100 at s6s a 63. * Grain - 2 cargo, s torn arrived this week, and were deposed ot at 55 cts per bushel. No Oats or Peas came to hand. c Way—A cargo arrived and brought 81 cents per Groceries Few sales to any extent were made timing the week at private sale, busi .ess -enerallv remains a.t 80 bim Altakapas Classes",. .on/t 28 cts per gallon, and 40 do at secret prices. 'The following sales were made at auction, 152 G \ prime green Coffee, at 10$ to 10£ per lb; inn , Orleans Mo’asses at 27 cts, 212 tihds \(> s u ,, a 4|; 13 bbls N O Molasses at 27 cts V’ ■ lon. gal ' I Lard —Is worth from 10 to 11 cts per ib Bacon —There is a large stock of old Ba C o maining on hand, and very dull pri. es of w!ii c u re * nearly nomihal. Little or no new has arrived th*'* season. * Halt —I2OO sacks sold at prices not w* and 1000 at $1 40 to 1 41 per sack. 'Phed, Spirits —25 hhds Balt Whiskey sold at 21 ,» ... i bbi Monongahela 37 at 37. 1 Exchange- —On England 83a9p Crct i France, of 15c aof 25c, 1 lum . i New York and Boston, Sight are taken at Or,* premium, 30 days, time off. ~ per c ? Richmond, 60 days, 1 percent. | Bank of Charleston rates of Exchange ! North. 8 ’ ° n s th « New York, 3 per ct premium. Phil idelphia, 2 per ct discount. Columbia and Camden, 1$ p C i ct Savannah Bank notes, 4 per ot discocnt Spanish Doubloons, sl6s; Mexican 16 ’ Sovereigns, $4 85; Spcie, 1$ per ctprem Freights —To Liverpool, to Id per lb r I ton; to Havre, 1 £ cts per Ib; f., r Bice. sls per L\°'' j New York, lor o Cotton, 7 cts and $T per # STATEMENT OF COTTON, ; Stock on hand Ist Oct. pq-3 UO-s --j Received this week, 007 gl.; j *>• previously, ££ ,»* 12493 13U623 Exported this week, 500 do. previously. 4395 104406 # I Cn ship board, , 00 4^5 499.3 115489 Savannah, February 14. Cotton —Arrived since the 7thinst 14931 bales Upland and 951 bales S 1 cotton, and cleared at thp same time 1 *5286 bales Upland ami 405 bales Si cotton; leaving a stock on hand, inclusive of all on shipboard not cleared on the 14th inrt, of 3669 s bales I pland and 2039 bales S 1 cotton. The c on tinned scarcity of vessels his doubt ess curtailed operations in Upland this week, the transactions have however been larger than any previous one this season, but the market being well -applied i s without animation, and prices are again lower v ■ will oe perceived by reference to our quotations The sales comprise 669’’ Dales, viz: 21 at o- lOat s‘; 126 at 6; 112 at - 129 7; 124 at :j; 181 at 7j ; 212 at 7£ ; 406 at if; 203 750 at 7g; 1052 at «; 164 at 8|; 1262 at Si -863 at Sg; 46 at 8 7-16; 7.91 at 8$; 271 at 222 at 8|; 112 at Sea Island considerable sales have been effected without material \ariation in price viz- lat IS -55 a, 20; 48 at 21, 76 a, 22; 39 at 22>; 9 '« » 12 at 47 at 26; 10 at 27. Receipts of Cotton at the fol'owing places since October Ist. 1839 1838 Georgia, February 14, 11377 3 129 72 South > arolina,February 7, 139310 li 1363 Mobile, February 1, 61470 1’9326 New Orleans, February 1, 444677 , 233618 Florida, February 1, 147.82 31767 North Carolina, January IS, 3668 3477 Virginia, December 4, 6000 4250 783080 66i577 The following is a statement of the stock of cot ton on hand at the lespective places named. Savannah, February 14, 33438 31562 South Carolina, February 7, 24241 34413 Mobile, February 1, 31486 75391 New Orleans, February 1, 114798 07443 Virginia, December 4, 1500 1500 North Carolina, January IS, 1500 1000 Augusta & Hamburg, Jan. 1, 35000 28945 Macon, February 1, 44477 16500 Florida,January IS, 3300 6500 Philadelphia, February 1, 1050 kfeo New York, January 31, 10000 35000 305792 330539 STATEMENT OF COTTON. Upl’ds. S.I. Stock on hand, Ist Oct. 1523 118 Received this week, 14931 951 do. previously 93825 3040 j 110279 41(9 Exported this week, 10256 405 Do. previously, 63*95 1665 73581 2070 j Stock on hand, including all on ship board not cleared on 14th inst. 36698 2G39 Rice —There has been more enquiry tor this ar ticle, and at our quotations holders continue firm. The sales of the week amoun to 1000 casks, viz: 150 at 2s; 200 at 2 13-16; 650 at 2§; 100 at $3. Flour —Continues extremely dull and piit es are without change. Sales of Howard st at £7; Canal at $8 a 8$ Corn —ls retailing from store at 65 a7O cts, ac coiding to quantity. Groceries —In Coffee, Sugar and Molasses, a fair retail business doing at all prices within the range of our quotations. Bacon —Sales of 15,000 lbs old Shoulders ani I Middlings at a 8 cts. Salt —?>ales of 20,000 bushe T s L verpool loose afloat at 23 a 25; 500 bags at sls. Hay— ln selling from store at £ls a If. Spirits— In domestic liquors, small sales of N E Ruin at 37 a 38; Whiskey at 34 a 36; Gin at 43 a 58. Exchange —Cn Eng’and, 10a 11 per ctprem. Drafts on New York, at sight, 6 a 6; per ct prem; 5 days sigyt, 5 a per ct prem. Freignts —To Liverpool, If a lsd; to York, i ct. New Orleans FebruaryS Cotton —Arrived since the 4th instant: of Lou isiana and jississippi 8127 bales, Tennessee and North Alabama 1173, Arkansas 229. Mobile 50,Ki0- I rida 16j, Texas 120, together 9885 bales;—cleared in the same time: for Liverpool 1494.Havre 2271, Trieste 1-134, Baltimore 378, together 5177 bales- | making an additi >n to stock of 4584 bales, and leav ing on hand, inclusive of ail on shipboard not in cluded on the 7lh inst, a stock of 111 ,S9B ba es. S nee our report of last Wednesday morning, the cotton market has remained in a quiet state, and transactions have been rather limited for this peri od of the season. The sales of Wednesday amount ed to only 2 'OO ba es, and they were generally e ‘" fected at a small reduction on previous rates; hold ers being compelled to rnaue some concessions, in order to draw buyers out, most of wnum seemed to prefer waiting the arrival of the news by tne British Queen, daily expected, be fore opera ting fur ther to any extent. On Thursday, owing to the lower rrtes which the market, and the sales reach el to fully 3500 bales, although the weather very wet and inclement thr mghJJt the day. The transitions of yesterday amounted U> > il tle over 3 iO.J bales without any further material alteration in the market. Our quol itions have been reduce! asof a cent on all descriptions. We must observe, L however, that they do not embrace tbe extreme 1 range of prices, as sales of very inferior co.tou have been made as low as sc, while, on tne other hand, very choice parcels have commanded T scarcity of tne liner sorts renders them, as hereto fore, much more saleab'e than the lower qua!iu* s » which continue abundant. 1 he sales for the week amount to 20,509 bate s * and for the lart three days to 8500. LIVEBPOOL CLASSIFICATIONS. . lymisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary, 6 a of; Midd.ing, 7 a 7 ; Fair, 8| aS ; Good fair, 9| ab : Good and line, 11 a—. Tennessee and S. Aim* 1 ' ma —Ordinary, middling, fair, good fair, good line, 5| a 9£, extre mes, STATEMENT OF COTTON. .... I 1839. Oct. I,stock on hand, [ Receipts last three days 9561 “ previously, 454939 464'tu “ 480624 Exports last three days, 5177 , , ** previously 7 , 363549 368'- Slock on hand lll»9* Sugar — Louisiana —The Levee is well supp * and lew transactions have taken place since o Jt la- t. owing, in some degree, to the unfavorable state ol the weather Prices remain the same as I* s quoted—say 3 j a 4f with an occasional small pa*' cel of very choice at oc. We aie not ad vised of au.' sales on Plantation since our report of Wednesday last. The current price for fair crops is 4c.